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3:40 PM ET, January 22, 2017

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New York Times:
Crowd Scientists Say Women's March in Washington Had 3 Times as Many People as Trump's Inauguration  —  Composite image by Joe Ward based on video from Urdu Voice of America  —  The women's march in Washington was roughly three times the size of the audience at President Trump's inauguration, crowd counting experts said Saturday.
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Esme Cribb / Talking Points Memo:
Conway: WH Spox Wasn't Lying, He Was Just Offering ‘Alternative Facts’  —  Senior Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway said in an interview Sunday morning that White House press secretary Sean Spicer wasn't lying about crowd size at the President's inauguration—he was just giving “alternative facts.”
Jonathan V. Last / Weekly Standard:
Trumpism Corrupts: Spicer Edition  —  White House press secretary Sean Spicer speaks in the press briefing room on January 21, 2017 in Washington, D.C..  —  The first official White House press conference is on Monday, but Sean Spicer called a Very Special Presser Saturday evening.  Why?
Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
Trump Attacks News Media Over Reporting on Crowd Sizes  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump and his staff spent their first full day in the White House waging a bitter war against the news media over depictions of the crowd at the inauguration on Friday.  —  In a pair of angry public appearances …
Alexandra Jaffe / NBC News:
Kellyanne Conway: WH Spokesman Gave ‘Alternative Facts’ on Inauguration Crowd  —  Conway: Press Secretary Gave ‘Alternative Facts’ 3:39  —  Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Donald Trump, said the White House press secretary gave “alternative facts” when he inaccurately described …
Kyle Balluck / The Hill:
Conway: 'We're going to have to rethink our relationship' with press  —  A top aide to President Trump said on Sunday that the new administration is going to “rethink” its relationship with the press.  —  “Chuck, if we're going to keep referring to our press secretary in those types of terms …
Discussion: RedState
Ezra Klein / Vox:
Trump's real war isn't with the media. It's with facts.
Discussion: Mother Jones, Politico and Nielsen
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
White House press secretary attacks media for accurately reporting inauguration crowds
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump wages war against the media as demonstrators protest his presidency
Discussion: ABC News and Politico
Matt Ford / The Atlantic:
Trump's Press Secretary Falsely Claims: ‘Largest Audience Ever to Witness an Inauguration, Period’
Politico:
WikiLeaks calls out Trump for refusing to release tax returns  —  WikiLeaks on Sunday took President Donald Trump to task for refusing to release his tax returns and offered to post them online, after a senior adviser said definitively that Trump would not be publicly disclosing the documents.
Discussion: The Hill, ABC News, RedState and Mediaite
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump won't release his tax returns because people don't care, top adviser says  —  A senior aide to President Trump said Sunday that he has no plans to release his tax returns, a marked shift from Trump's pledge during the campaign to make them public once an audit was completed.
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump attacks Time reporter for mistake about MLK bust
Associated Press:
The Latest: Trump Changes Course After Denouncing Protesters  —  The Latest on President Donald Trump (all times EST):  —  President Donald Trump is doing a quick about-face about the protests that swept through Washington and around the world on Saturday.
Discussion: Politico and The Republic
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Reuters:
UK PM May promises frank talk with Trump after women protest
Discussion: The Week
Bloomberg:
Trump Team in Talks with U.K. on Post-Brexit Trade Deal
Discussion: TheBlaze
Christopher Hope / Telegraph:
Watch | Trumps attend interfaith prayer service
Discussion: Axios and Politico
Burgess Everett / Politico:
McCain and Graham back Tillerson  —  After weeks of agonizing over Rex Tillerson's ties to Russia, John McCain and Lindsey Graham said Sunday that they will vote for President Donald Trump's secretary of state nominee, essentially clinching approval for Tillerson.
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Axios
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
McCain and Schumer: Don't end Russian sanctions without Congress
Discussion: ABC News
NBC News:
Ex-CIA Boss Brennan, Others Rip Trump Speech in Front of Memorial  —  President Trump Praises CIA, Attacks Media in Agency Visit 2:31  —  Donald Trump traveled to CIA headquarters Saturday to offer reassurance to the workforce after he spent weeks criticizing American intelligence …
Discussion: Hullabaloo and The Hill
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CBS News:
Most protesters arrested on Inauguration Day will face felony rioting charges, federal prosecutors say  —  WASHINGTON — Most of the approximately 230 protesters arrested on Inauguration Day will be charged with felony rioting, federal prosecutors said.  —  The U.S. Attorney's Office …
Discussion: Daily Mail and The American Mirror
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Scenes from a pussy riot  —  Who knew President Trump's lewd 2005 “Access Hollywood” video, particularly his ugly “grab 'em by the pussy” line, would start a movement?  A lot of political observers thought it would sink his presidential candidacy — wrong — but few might have predicted …
Discussion: Power Line
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Z. Byron Wolf / CNN:
Comparing Trump's inauguration crowd to the Women's March
Los Angeles Times:
Women's marches live updates: Millions march in L.A. and around the world following Trump's inauguration
New York Daily News:
Half a million people show up for Women's March on Washington as others flock to sister marches across globe  —  Anastasia Shawback boarded a 5:30 a.m. bus Friday, riding 22 hours from Illinois to join the Women's March on Washington against newly-installed President Trump.
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Bloomberg:
Women's Marches Flood Cities Worldwide on Trump's First Day
 
 
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Peter Wehner / New York Times:
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution / WPXI-TV:
Jesse Jackson: Trump's inauguration speech was ‘full of hope and inclusion’
Discussion: RedState
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Bloomberg:
Trump's Inaugural TV Ratings Fall Short of Obama's in 2009
Discussion: Politico, The Hill, TheBlaze and Daily Kos
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Women's March Organizer Recently Met Ex-Hamas Operative, Has Family Ties To Terror Group
Donald J. Trump / CNN:
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